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Nokia Developer at Mobile World Congress 2013

Join Kenny Mathers, Director, Programs and Monetisation at Nokia, to discover the success Nokia found at this year's Mobile World Congress. Among the show highlights: 2000 developers visiting the Apps Developer Conference, launch of the Nokia Lumia 720 and Nokia Lumia 520, Asha Developer Competition, relaunch of the Nokia Developer Champions program, Premium Developer Program, Nokia Ad Exchange, 3D printing, and nine awards.

Weather App - a location-aware application with Nokia Ad Exchange

Weather App is an example Series 40 Java application that demonstrates location-retrieval using CellId or GPS and integration of Nokia Ad Exchange to monetise the application with ads. The application has been made scalable, to support the various touch and non-touch user interface styles on Series 40, including the UI on the latest Asha Touch phones.
For downloads, source, and more information, please visit the app's project.
For more Java example apps from Nokia Developer, please check out the Java Examples page.
For more on Nokia Ad Exchange, please check out the NAX page.

Tourist Attractions - A location-aware city guide example app with in-app purchasing

Tourist Attractions is a Nokia Developer example app written in Java for Series 40 phones. It demonstrates the use of the Location API for Java ME (JSR-179) and the HERE Maps API for Java ME (formerly the Nokia Maps API) to retrieve and show location information as well as details of nearby attractions. In addition, it incorporates the In-App Purchase API to enable the purchase and download of additional city guides.
This application works on most Series 40 phones, ranging from entry-level models to the highly successful Asha family of smartphones.
For downloads, source, and more information, please visit the app's project.
For more information on in-app purchase, please see the Java Developer's Library.
For more Java example apps from Nokia Developer, please check out the Java Examples page.

Introducing Nokia Ad Exchange

Kenny Mathers, Director of Developer Programs and Monetisation at Nokia, introduces Nokia Ad Exchange (NAX). Kenny describes how NAX offers a really simple way for you to monetise your free apps. A single line of code adds ads from over 120 advertising networks to your app, ads that can be delivered in over 200 countries. To help you make the most of NAX, Kenny explains that it includes a powerful analytics feature. With this feature you can see how ads are being consumed and use this information to optimise you revenue. Using NAX you can also run campaigns to promote your apps and reach more users.

Nokia Ad Exchange

With Nokia Ad Exchange (NAX) you can add ads to your apps, with just a line of code. That line of code gives you access to over 120 advertising networks, delivering ads in over 200 countries. Once you are up and running powerful analytics help you track ad consumption and optimise your revenue. You can also use the Campaign feature to cross promote your apps for free or run a paid campaign to promote your app on others’ mobile apps worldwide.

Monetizing Your Apps with Nokia

Nokia Store expands your worldwide reach to 190+ markets, with 90 per cent of those markets being served in their local language. The store sees more than 15 million downloads a day and 80 per cent of store traffic converts to a download. Nokia Store generates the highest average number of downloads per app compared to any other app store. The store also offers the largest operator billing network, with more than 145 operators in 52 markets. And you can make the most of this opportunity with in-app advertising and in-app purchasing features.

Offscreen: 100 million downloads on Nokia Store

Harri Myllynen, CEO at Offscreen Technologies, talks about the success this Finnish developer has found for its mobile games, utilities, media, entertainment, and internet apps through Nokia Store.
The team behind Offscreen started creating apps in 2003 and formed the company in 2005 as the interest in smartphones grew. They now employ 16 people in Helsinki and Shanghai.
While the range of apps the company has created is wide, they have learnt that simple apps can be the most successful — as exemplified by their Bright Light app, which turns on a phone’s flash LED to act as a torch. ‘It’s still the most downloaded application of ours. It took about six hours to develop including the graphic design, yet it’s so popular,’ says Harri.
In addition, by making their apps available for free, according to Harri, they see an immediate 100-fold increase in downloads. Offscreen then uses in-app advertising or in-app purchasing to monetise these apps — with half the company’s application revenue coming from in-app advertising.
“We are very pleased to working with Nokia, with the reach that Nokia Store offers to almost 200 countries,” says Harri. ‘And the whole team felt really proud and happy when we reached 100 million downloads.’

Inode: 100 million downloads on Nokia Store

Jamie Enriquez, Founder and CEO at Inode Entertainment, talks about the success this Mexican developer has found for its mobile games, apps, and content through Nokia Store.
Inode started adding content to Nokia Store three years ago, because of the reach it offers. It was an immediate success and the revenue soon meant Jamie and his brother could hire an additional developer and graphic designer.
‘The journey has been a lot of fun,’ says Jamie. ‘From having one million downloads last year to 100 million downloads this year, that’s a reflection on how much Nokia cares about their local developers.’
At the beginning of the year Jamie set a goal of 3 million downloads per day and Inode is close to achieving that goal today.
‘We are really happy to keep partnering with Nokia,’ says Jamie, ‘developing for Lumia and Asha, to deliver great content for our users.’

100 Million in 100 Seconds

How big is 100 million? Discover how big and join Nokia Developer in congratulating Indiagames, Pico Brothers, and Inode Entertainment on achieving 100 million downloads from Nokia store.

Indiagames 100 Million Downloads on Nokia Store

Vishal Gondal, Managing Director of Digital, Disney UTV talks about the success Indiagames has achieved working closely with Nokia and distributing its apps through Nokia Store. The company focuses on ABCD games — action, Bollywood, cricket, and driving — with a strong focus on localised content. Commenting on the success of Nokia Store, Gondal mentions their RA.ONE game. Gondal says that he was ‘expecting to do, probably, 500 thousand downloads in six months … but we did 1 million downloads in six days – that is scale, that is the popularity of the Nokia platform (and) Nokia Store.”

Monetize your apps: In-App Purchasing Example Apps

This video demonstrates the user experience of two types of in-app purchase in Qt apps. The first demo is of the purchase of a non-DRM protected level in the QuickHit game. The second show how preloaded, DRM protected content in Moto Trial Racer is purchased by a user. Both examples are implemented with the Qt In-App Purchase API.

Nokia SDK for Java: Setting up In-App Purchasing

Mike Arvela, Lead Developer at Futurice, demonstrates the steps for implementing In-App Purchasing for Java MIDlet applications. With Nokia Store achieving over 10 million downloads per day, driving revenue beyond paid downloads is essential. In app purchase helps you open new revenue streams, with virtual goods, subscriptions, try & buy, and beyond.

In-App Purchasing: Integrating into existing MIDlets

Mike Arvela, Lead Developer at Futurice, explains how to implement In-App Purchasing into an existing application. With Nokia Store achieving over 10 million downloads per day, driving revenue beyond paid downloads is essential. In app purchase helps you open new revenue streams, with virtual goods, subscriptions, try & buy, and beyond.

Mobile World Congress 2012 Montage

This montage of MWC 2012 highlights shows that this was a hugely successful event for Nokia. The Nokia Developer Day set the stage by announcing the winners of the Create for Millions developer competition, followed by various keynote speeches by both Nokia and key partners. Device launches, such as the Nokia 808 PureView, the Nokia Lumia 610, and global availability Nokia Lumia 900 had their share of attention.

Bryan Biniak keynote at MWC 2012

Bryan Biniak, VP of Global Partner and App Development for Nokia discusses the recent app development partnerships and how they will focus on original app content to change the overall consumer experience. Biniak announces Nokia's latest partnership, one with Michelin to expand on all aspects of travel including hotel reservations, traffic, and tourism exclusively for Nokia devices.

Richard Kerris' keynote at MWC 2012

Richard Kerris, VP, Head of Global Developer Relations at Nokia, speaks to developers about the many opportunities for making applications on Nokia platforms successful. Richard emphasises that Nokia wants to help developers build their business, by offering support and providing options for monetization.

Kraft and Nokia Announce Partnership at MWC 2012

Bonin Bough, VP of Global and Consumer Engagement at Kraft Foods, talks about the creation of the Kraft Mobile Innovation Lab, which will develop broad strategies - from games to the development of social experiences - for Kraft's mobile content. Kraft has partnered with Nokia and Windows on this project to provide utility, entertainment, and meaningful mobile experiences to its users.

Marco Argenti keynote at MWC 2012

Marco Argenti, Senior Vice President of Developer Experience at Nokia gave a keynote address at the Nokia Developer Day during Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona, Spain. Marco highlighted the results stemming from Nokia's strategy, based on two key pillars of 'Winning with Microsoft' and 'Connecting the next billion', noting that 'We made huge progress on both'.

Red Bull Keynote at MWC 2012

Alexander Koppel, Chief Commercial Officer of Red Bull Media House, announces the partnership between his company and Nokia at Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona. This partnership, which was built on the three principles of challenge, partnerhip, and brand, was forged to bring mobility to the next level and create a brand new experience for all users.

Marcus Backlund - Voddler Keynote at MWC 2012

Marcus Backlund, Chief Executive Officer of Voddler, announces the partnership with Nokia at Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona. Voddler offers the best Hollywood movies to mobile devices; box office hits and classics from over 45 of the world's leading content providers. With a database of more than 5,000 movies, Voddler and Nokia will connect online and mobile entertainment for an enhanced user experience.

Monetizing your Apps with In-App Purchasing

In-app purchasing offers you an exciting new way to monetize your apps. You can take advantage of a range of business models, from Try and Buy to offering all manner of upgrades, subscriptions, and digital assets. The experience is transparent to users, who don’t leave your app during the purchase process. It also leverages the operator billing offered by Nokia Store as well as credit card purchases in more markets than any other app store. You can add in-app purchasing to your Symbian apps with Qt and apps for the latest Series 40 phones using Java.

Monetizing your Apps with In-App Advertising

The in-app advertising market is experiencing massive growth, with top publishers in Nokia Store generating monthly revenues of between 30,000 and 50,000 euros. This video provides you with a mobile advertising 101 to get you up to speed and then guides you through to the process you will follow to add in-app advertising to your apps. Using the right advertising solutions you can add in-app advertising to your Windows Phone, Symbian, and Java apps. With Nokia’s global reach and smart advertising solutions you have an unrivalled opportunity to monetize your apps.

Twist Mobile: Innovation & Success with Nokia Developer

Indian developer Twist Mobile has built many apps for Nokia phones. CEO Virat Khutal and Technical Head Pramod Pandey talk about the support Nokia provides throughout the app lifecycle: From technical support — where according to Pramod local support is ‘ready to help us out in any way’ — through SDK and code examples to features for in-app advertising and distribution channels. ‘We used to be making 20 dollars a day, but now with the Nokia partnership we are making thousand dollars a day,’ says Virat.

Discover something new in the Nokia Store

Nokia Store is the best way to find new and innovative content for your Nokia phone. Available in 190+ markets worldwide, and localised in 32 languages, the Nokia Store now has more than 13 million daily downloads. Nokia Store is simple to use and offers intuitive app discovery. When you use Nokia Store, you can pay for content directly from your mobile phone through operator billing using one of more than 134 operators in 48 markets. With thousands of free apps, along with premium and local favourites, you can find content in Nokia Store to play anywhere, get social, power your business - and try something new today.

Pico Brothers: The road to 100 million downloads

The co-founders of Pico Brothers, Niklas Karlstrom and Kristian Engsjo, talk about all aspects of their apps business. The guys met while working at a telecoms company. Spurred on by the launch of Ovi Store (now Nokia Store) they took a bold leap into apps development, something that Kristian described as “exciting, and challenging, and a bit scary”. But it took them only a couple of months to get to grips with developing for mobile phones. They now create most of their apps using Qt, in anything from a few hours to a month. Having already passed to 80 million download milestone, they are looking forward to achieving 100 million downloads.

AT&T Developer Summit Montage

Revisit all the action from the AT&T Developer Summit held during the International Consumer Electronics Show 2012 in Las Vegas, where developers competed in a Hackathon to create new apps for Nokia Lumia Windows Phones; heard keynotes from Nokia and Microsoft executives; and had the chance to party at the Playboy Club, where they got up-close and personal with the ... Nokia Lumia 900.

Stephen Elop at AT&T Developer Summit

Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop takes the stage at the AT&T Developer Summit 2012, held at the Palms Casino in Las Vegas. Stephen discusses Nokia's strategy, focusing on the ecosystem battle and the new Nokia Lumia family of phones. Re-entry to the US market is a key aspect of this strategy and Stephen explains how AT&T is playing a big role: Working with Nokia to deliver the first 4G LTE capable Windows Phone, the Nokia Lumia 900. Touching on the benefits for US developers, Stephen discusses the bigger picture: How Nokia offers any developer the ability to transcend local markets and go global, with support from a full toolkit — such as operator billing and in-app advertising — to monetize apps, worldwide.

Inneractive: Maximizing Monetization with Nokia

Assaf Benjamin, VP of Business Development at Inneractive, discusses the process of providing an in-app advertising engine to help generate revenue for developers. With Nokia, Inneractive has created an ecosystem of thousands of developers combined with the largest network of advertising agencies and networks worldwide. Since January 2011, Inneractive has seen an increase of application downloads on the Nokia Store, in some cases up to 40%. In addition, the click-through rates they are experiencing with these applications are upwards of 3%. Finally, 9 out of 10 games on the Nokia Store use Inneractive's in-app advertising SDK. These fantastic statistics combined with the continued Nokia support will provide additional ways for all developers around the world to capitalize on their application by increasing revenue in new, more efficient ways.

Joikusoft: Maximizing Monetization with Nokia

Tom Ojala, CEO at Joikusoft discusses the company's 'freemium' business model with Nokia. With this option, individuals can use the free application with no obligation to purchase the premium edition. However if they chose to upgrade and receive more functionality and features, they can do so directly through the free version. With the combination of this 'freemium' business model and application pre-loads on various Nokia devices, Joikusoft has been able to reach a global audience that continues to grow.

Offscreen: Maximizing Monetization with Nokia

Harri Myllynen, CEO at Offscreen talks about the company's success on Nokia Store coupled with their wide distribution on Windows Phone, Qt, and Series 40 platforms. Offscreen is the first developer company to date surpassing 80 million downloads in Nokia Store. Harri notes that 50X more downloads come from their free applications with in-app advertising rather than their paid applications; and they sees 5X more income from their free applications with in-app advertising than traditional paid applications.

eBuddy: Achieving Global Reach with Nokia

Jan Joost Rueb, CEO of eBuddy, talks about their latest application -- eBuddyXMS -- a free, real-time, messaging application available on all mobile platforms. eBuddy has been in the Nokia Store for two years now, and has received over 20 million downloads to date. With eBuddy's availability in 20+ languages across the globe, they have been able to promote with Nokia at both a global level as well as hyper-local level creating the largest possible user base. While working on Windows Phone, Qt and Series 40, eBuddy is ready to reach the next billion users around the world. eBuddy is excited for the opportunities that lie ahead while working closely with Nokia and Microsoft.

Obrębalski Design: The new shape of time

Originating from Piotr Bitner’s work on an Adobe Flash development book, Shape Clocks are an innovative take on the traditional ways of presenting the time. As the idea took shape Piotr registered copyright and created Obrębalski Design to build his new clocks. Shape Clocks are constructed using 12 or 24 elements for hours, 60 elements for minutes and 60 elements for seconds, to create flamboyant visual interpretations of the time. The company now has 39 Shape Clocks available in Nokia Store, for both smartphones and Series 40 phones. From 100 downloads in their first month on Nokia Store, Shape Clocks have now been downloaded by more than 1.5 million times, by people in 175 countries. This success has spurred Piotr on to add additional time features, such as alarms and stopwatches to his Shape Clocks.

A Hit with the Kiddos: Spice Labs Success Story

With more than 9.6 million downloads for its applications and its Hangman app crossing the one million download mark in just a few months, Spice Labs has benefited greatly from apps distribution through Nokia Store. As an example of the diversity of apps Spice Labs is finding success with through Nokia Store, Kiddo was developed for the children who inevitably pick up their parent’s mobile phones. The application offers younger phone users an engaging edutainment experience, which Spice Labs has shown aids children in efficient and speedy learning, specifically memorising and pronouncing words. ‘Nokia offers a huge reach in terms of geography and demographics’ that has aided Spice Labs’ success with apps such as Kiddo, according to product manager Prashant Singh.

The new Nokia Store client: Powered by Qt

Nokia’s Bill Bonney, senior systems architect, and Ashwini Bharadwaj, senior software engineer, talk about the advantages of developing the new Nokia Store client using Qt and Qt Quick. From the simple installation of the Qt SDK, through its developer friendly UI and comprehensive API documentation to the power of Qt Quick and Qt signals and slots, Bill and Ashwini provide a compelling insight into the advantages of Qt-based development. The video also showcases the new store client and the rich UI the team created with Qt Quick.

biNu: Offering the smartphone experience on any phone

Since biNu launched in December 2010, Nokia Store has helped drive 16 million biNu mobile app downloads, with over 1.6 million unique visitors per month from 180 countries. biNu offers feature phone users optimised access to over 100 application services, such as Wikipedia and the Wordnik English Dictionary as well as a wide range of news sites and blogs. According to Lentell “leveraging Nokia’s global reach is a key factor in our success,” enabling biNu to bring near instant response times for internet applications and services to mobile phones worldwide.

Nimbuzz

Over 600,000 downloads from Ovi Store.

The newly upgraded Nimbuzz mobile app for Nokia Symbian devices, a social networking client with more than 10 million registered users across all mobile platforms, integrates a complete range of popular voice and text messaging services and networking protocols into a single interface.

Shazam

Over 1 million downloads from Ovi Store.

Shazam gives consumers instant satisfaction in those times when they want to know the name of the song that is playing. It allows consumers to discover new music, learn about the artist, get chart information, music recommendations, buy the song and share their discovery with their family and friends via mobile, Facebook or Twitter.

TuneWiki

The TuneWiki Social Music Player is the all-in-one social media music player with the largest legally-licensed lyrics database in the world and is available globally from Ovi Store.

It combines subtitled lyrics with music and music videos, translating the lyrics into more than 40 languages. Available for Symbian (5.0) touch devices such as the Nokia N97, Nokia N97 mini and Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Tunewiki has all of the functionality of the default music player on these devices, plus its karaoke-like timed lyrics feature.

HandyWi

HandyWi has been downloaded over 475,000 times in 199 countries.

HandyWi lets consumers find and connect to millions of hotspots around the world, and easily re-establish connections to private portals without having to re-navigate cumbersome login forms.

Accuweather

As of 30 November 2009 the application has been downloaded over 300,000 times from Ovi Store.

The AccuWeather.com mobile app for Nokia Symbian (5.0) devices (such as the Nokia N97 and the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic) is a global GPS-based weather center.

Sensible Sudoku

Sensible Sudoku has registered over 400,000 downloads in its first few months of availability in Ovi Store.

Sensible Sudoku is a fun, lovingly designed Sudoku implementation with a great interface, elegant audio and enjoyable game play for Sudoku addicts of any level. Developed by Ludimate, the gaming division of Portugal's Faron Studio.

SMS Preview

In its first two months of being available in Ovi Store, over 600,000 users discovered the simplicity and convenience of SMS Preview.

SMS Preview is a user-friendly text-messaging solution by Numo Solutions based in Oslo, Norway and Espoo, Finland.

Dad’s Cab

Dad’s Cab has been downloaded over 100,000 times in over 150 countries.

Developed by ustwo™, in collaboration with creative agency Work Club, Dad's Cab is a mobile app that turns a Nokia Symbian (5.0) device into a GPS-aware taxi meter, gives dads or moms or roommates, for that matter--a humorous way to make a point and to improve family communications.

Calling All Innovators Developer Party

In August, Nokia hosted a celebration to announce the winners of the Calling All Innovators $10M contest and turn the spotlight on our most important collaborators, you the developer. Fellow Nokia and Windows Phone devs, as well as members of the Nokia North America team, local VCs, media, and operators attended to celebrate the industry and it's achievements. It was a wonderful evening celebrating your contributions to the mobile app ecosystem and we look forward to sharing with you in the exciting times ahead.

LiveJournal: Powered by Qt, with 95% code reuse

Lina Udovenko — LiveJournal marketing director, SUP Media — talks about the capabilities of the LiveJournal app on the Nokia N9 smartphone. She is joined by Mikhail Nosov — principal software developer, Teleca — who explains that the app was first developed for Symbian then ported to the N9, with 95% of the code unchanged. Mikhail also discusses QML, noting it’s three times faster than using C++ to create a UI and offers more features, such as transitions. Lina concludes, noting that Nokia phones offer a great opportunity for LiveJournal to reach a mainstream audience.

Locago: Powered by Java

Patric Nordström, CEO of Idevio, talks about Locago. This exciting new map browser app features directions, multiple information overlays, and real-time dynamic content updates and has found tremendous success through Ovi Store by Nokia. The app has been developed to take advantage of the Series 40 Touch and Type UI, something Idevio found easy to do because of the consistent implementation of Java technology across the range of Series 40 phones. The app, which can be found here, has been downloaded more than six million times in more than 190 markets worldwide.

University of Applied Sciences Hagenberg – Developing for Nokia

In this video Bernhard Aufreiter — a student at the University of Applied Sciences in Hagenberg, Upper Austria — talks about the benefits of developing for Nokia phones. Bernhard has already published his eighth game in Ovi Store and surpassed the 1 million downloads milestone. Recently he started using Qt and has been impressed with the ease of use of Qt SDK and the power of the APIs; which have enabled him to create Glow Racer, a game that makes use of a phone’s accelerometer for game control. Download Bernhard’s apps from Ovi Store .

Film.at: Powered by Qt

Florian Angulanza, CEO of UTILO, talks about creating the Film.at app using Qt SDK. Film.at is an app that provides its users with the latest information and news on movies and cinemas in Austria, including the ability to watch trailers. The app delivers the largest database of films in Austria, which covers more than 8,000 titles. The Film.at app can be downloaded from Ovi Store.

Foursquare — Growing with Nokia

In this video, foursquare co-founder — and long-time Nokia fan — Naveen Selvadurai discusses the latest versions of the app for Nokia Series 40 phones and the Qt-powered Nokia N9 smartphone.

Foursquare for Series 40 now integrates Nokia Maps; and includes an ‘Explore’ feature to provide user recommendations. This fast-growing social location application, with more than 10 million users worldwide, enables individuals to learn more about the world around them, and share what they learn.

For many people, foursquare for Nokia Series 40 phones will be their first experience with the internet. Collaborating with Nokia ‘allows us to reach an even wider audience all around the world,’ says Selvadurai.

App-Promo

Learn how to promote, distribute and market your mobile application to Nokia users worldwide. The Qt-based App-Promo has packaged up the tips, tricks, and steps necessary to tackle the challenge of app discovery. Whether you only have a few minutes to review the latest quick Tips; want to see how others have succeeded in the Spotlight section; or learn the fundamentals of app marketing from the App Promo 101 section – you will have the knowledge and tools you need to succeed right at your fingertips.

Developing with Qt: Smart Installer

Nokia Smart Installer for Symbian is a deployment solution that ensures that installed 3rd party applications always have access to the required versions of their dependent libraries. Lucian Tomuta talks how to utilise the Smart Installer in the Qt application.

Read more: http://www.forum.nokia.com/Develop/Qt/ and about the Smart Installer here: http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/Nokia_Smart_Installer_for_Symbian.

AR.Drone

AR.Drone is an app for your Nokia device that lets you control your Parrot AR.Drone. It enables you to fly your drone while watching the video feed. The app was made for fun and to give an example on how to create a control app using Qt.

Check out the Video on Nokia Conversations

Poynt: Nokia Developer Interview with Bart McCormick

Bart McCormick, VP of business development at Poynt, talks about the new Poynt application. Poynt is an easy-to-use, all-in-one tool to connect users who are on the go with local businesses, retailers, and events.

In this interview, Bart discusses how the application was created in Qt with the support of Forum Nokia, helping him and his team to take Poynt from concept to publication in Ovi Store.

BLStream: Nokia Developer Interview with Anton Gauffin

Anton Gauffin, president of BLStream, talks about the new application for Nokia devices, ShutterPro. This application extends the functionality of the camera built into Nokia smartphones, with features such as extended digital zoom and photo filters. In this interview, Anton explains how Forum Nokia has been supporting him and his team, as well as discussing the success the company has had through Ovi Store.

Slacker: Nokia Developer Interview with Steve Cotter

Steve Cotter, SVP of sales at Slacker, talks about the new application for Nokia devices, Slacker Radio, which enables users to listen to free personalised radio on their Nokia smartphones.

The award-winning Slacker Radio application gives users access to the entire Slacker music library, which features millions of songs from thousands of artists. In addition to music, users can access news and sports information. In this interview, Steve discusses how Slacker used Qt to create the application and how Forum Nokia supported him and his team during development as well as marketing the app in Ovi Store.

Whatser

Use this app to access information and interact with the online service Whatser. Check what your friends are doing, browse gigs and events in your town.

ShoppingList

This is a simple application to manage your shopping list. Developed in Qt Quick, it showcases a really good UI and takes advantage of common features of QML to create lists, scroll smoothly and make the application more engaging with various animations. Note: this application was developed by Nokia personnel in their spare time, and it is available as open source.

SingaporeBus

Developed as a hobby by a Singapore citizen, SingaporeBus is the ideal app if you frequently use public transportation in Singapore. SingaporeBus lets you find the best public transport options to reach your destination based on your current position, showing you where the nearest stops are located on a map. The app is free and open source.

TwimGo

A Twitter client developed with Qt Quick. This is a stable application that has been developed for a few months now and is ready to go in Ovi Store as soon as apps built with Qt Quick are accepted.

NewsFlow

NewsFlow is a Google Reader client that allows you to read your favourite RSS feeds on the move. Developed in Qt Quick, it takes advantage of smooth transitions, fast scrolling and has a very polished UI.

Podcatcher

Developed over many years as an open source project, and available for Symbian OS, S60 3.x and 5.0 devices, as well as new Symbian devices like the Nokia N8, Podcatcher is a must for anyone listening regularly to podcasts on their Nokia smartphone. Now also available in Ovi Store, with a small 1 Euro price tag that supports the work of the developer that has worked so hard to create this special application.

ForecaWeather

ForecaWeather provides current conditions, 10 day weather forecasts and various weather animations for any location world-wide. You can choose from over 140.000 hand picked locations or you can retrieve forecasts for your current location using your phone's GPS. You can also use the Landmarks in your phone or you can enter a new location by coordinates. ForecaWeather lets you display a 10-day forecast in your phone's calendar as memos.

Fruit Ninja

Fruit Ninja is a juicy action game with squishy, splatty and satisfying fruit carnage! Become the ultimate bringer of sweet, tasty destruction with every slash. Swipe up across the screen to deliciously slash fruit like a true ninja warrior. With three games modes in single player the addictive game play will keep you coming back for even higher scores.

Learn more about Halfbrick:
http://www.halfbrick.com/

IdeasProject

The IdeasProject is an online community for everybody from all around the world to brainstorm. It enables the two-way exchange of ideas between users and developers around innovation powered by Nokia.

By sharing your ideas here you expose them to a huge number of other enthusiastic people who can help you evolve them into real innovations and products. We offer challenges and concrete rewards for the best ideas.

Nokia Developer Day at MWC 2011

This video, introduced by Srikanth Raju director, head of marketing at Forum Nokia, provides an overview of the activities at the Nokia Developer Day held during MWC 2011 in Barcelona. A number of developers share their thoughts on the benefits of the event also.

Entupalma at MWC 2011

Maximiliano Firtman, director of Entupalma, talks about creating the Ole app for one of Argentina’s leading news and sport sites using web technology. Maximiliano discusses also the success he has achieved in distributing his apps through Ovi store and the support benefits of the Forum Nokia community.

Mobilizy at MWC 2011

Martin Lechner, chief technical officer at Mobilizy, talks about the augmented reality Wikitude World Browser app. Martin discusses also how using Qt to create Wikitude has been a benefit, along with the reach they have achieved through Ovi store.

Blue

Blue™ provides the fastest, smartest way to view real-time prices from financial markets around the world, for free. View more than 2 million instruments from 162 exchanges - local, regional and global, with breaking business and company-specific news, plus all major commodities and Stock Market indices. Key features include: Shortcut Keys; Charts; Watch Lists; Quick Quote; Portfolio Manager; Price and News Alerts; Streaming/Snapshot modes; News; 24/7 Customer support; Help screens; Built-in IM; Blue™ Store

Robodef

Military game with elements of arcade strategy, variation on "Tower Defense" theme, brought to you by producers of "Tankzors" and "Tankzors Pro".

Features include:

• Light and heavy rival tanks
• Walking robots
• Self-powered dischargers
• 20 static self-operating warfare system, basic types of weapons
• Mortar and rocket launchers
• EMP canons
• Secret tesla systems

Snaptu

Snaptu is a fast stylish all-in-one app that includes your mobile essentials in one place: Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, News, Weather, Sports (Cricket, Soccer...) Movies, Sudoku and much more... Instead of cramming your phone with lots of individual apps that eat battery, waste space and slow things down, guess what? You can have Snaptu, a single efficient and incredibly powerful app that keeps your phone running full speed ahead.

eBuddy

Chat on MSN, Facebook, Yahoo!, GTalk (Orkut), AIM, MySpace and ICQ. Get the most popular free IM app on your mobile, with almost 15 million users worldwide! With eBuddy you can also send pictures, set your avatar from your phone camera, choose colorful themes and much more!

GameLion

Anton Gauffin, CEO of BLStream talks with us about developing apps for Nokia devices with Qt in Mountain View, CA. Anton talks about the success he's seen on Ovi Store with their Crazy Hamster game, developing with Qt and considerations for localizing apps and games.

Learn more about BLStream & Gamelion:
http://www.blstream.com/
http://www.game-lion.com/

Swype for Nokia

How fast can you type using a virtual keyboard on your Nokia touch-enabled device? Using Swype on a device like the Nokia N8 or Nokia C7, you could be as fast as 40 words per minute. Swype provides a faster and easier way to input text on any screen. Using a continuous finger or stylus motion across the virtual keyboard displayed on your device, the patented technology enables users to input words faster and easier than other data input methods.

Swype is available in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese - and more languages are coming soon. Learn more at Nokia Beta Labs.

FriendChat

FriendChat is an instant messaging service to keep people connected to all of their friends on Facebook. The app is simple, stylish and really easy to use. With its smooth layout and crisp design, FriendChat makes it easy for users to see if their Facebook friends are currently online, ping them, and start chatting right away.

Created by the UK-based Bolser Agency, FriendChat was developed using Qt, ensuring a high quality user experience.  The app is compatible with both Nokia Symbian OS, S60 5.0 devices, as well as the newest Nokia Symbian devices, like the Nokia N8. It is free to download from Ovi Store.

WordPress for Nokia

If you keep a blog, chances are you use WordPress to maintain it. And now, WordPress has a mobile app for use on Nokia smartphones, including devices like the Nokia N97 mini, and the Nokia N900. The app has been written and developed with Qt, and it works on both Nokia Symbian OS devices, and Maemo devices.

In addition to written blog posts, the WordPress for Nokia app can be used to easily share photos and videos, too. And, it comes with built-in statistical analysis tools to see how a blog is performing.

This app was developed as an Open Source project, so anyone can play a part in its future development. WordPress for Nokia is released under the GNU General Public License. Both the app and source code are free to use.

The WordPress app is free to download from Ovi Store, and more information is available from the developers here: nokia.wordpress.org.

Ovi Browser

Ovi Browser brings rich web browsing to Nokia Series 40 devices that is fast and easy. It uses patented, Internet compression technology to reduce data usage by up to 90 per cent. As a result, pages display more quickly, saving users money on data charges. Multiple view modes are supported so that individuals can see the full web page in the original layout, or with an optimised single column format. The Ovi Browser is free, and available for a broad range of Nokia Series 40 devices.

BlogRadio

Mobile users are always struggling to stay up to date on their favourite sources of news and information, and BlogRadio solves this problem by allowing mobile users listen to their favourite blogs while on-the-go.

BlogRadio converts any RSS (or Atom) based news source to streaming audio in a natural voice. BlogRadio's servers manage all the user's data and streams the audio to the user on-demand; in other words, BlogRadio converts any blog to an "instant podcast".

Read the full application review on the Ovi Daily App.

Live Talkback

Developed by Greys Media Ltd. from the UK, Live Talkback allows audiences to vote for free (excluding operator data charges) from their Symbian devices (S60 3.x & 5.0), and receive the feedback of dynamic, real-time results of live votes.  New polls can be created in seconds and pushed to audiences for instant feedback.  Polls and results are fully brandable and can incorporate sponsored messages.